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I'm a recent convert to the use of wet wipes for the purpose of bottom hygene, its important especially prior to a lengthy bike ride and much more effective than loo roll or a corner of the currant bun so I like them..
However recent news suggests I'm breaking the sewage systems, oceans and the planet in general and obviously thats not good!
How should I be cleaning up down there?
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Got a cat?
Fit a bidet?
Just keep a wet sponge next to the toilet? 😯
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Put it in the bin on completion of your pampering.
What are you eating that you need special cleaning apparatus 😯
Did you fly with BA recently?
wet wipe only to be deployed in the event of bottom trauma.
Would it be the case that the recently advertised 'Andrex Flushable Washlets' are different to 'wet wipes' and indeed flushable and sewer system friendly? The do say they're 'tested and fully biodegradable but have they just printed 'flushable' on something that shouldn't be used for that purpose?
The question is are they biodegrading as part of the conventional sewage treatment process or are they getting past that system and doing that biodegrading on the beach?
Wire Brush and dettol.
Wet wipes you buy from the baby section of the supermarket? Bag them (bags available from adjacent shelves), and bin them. Wet wipes from the bog roll section (proper name:moistened toilet tissues) inspect and flush. In the event of poomageddon and you need to use half a pack, do the drains a favour and deploy the occasional interim flush.
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Seeing as Jamie's not here to post it
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It's true that wet wipes are blocking up the sewers; they are made from a non-woven fibre fabric that stays tough even when wet and they tend to hang up on obstructions in the sewers. I had to rod our drains a couple of times when our son was small and they were going down the bog.
Regular bog paper breaks up very readily when wet and I believe the proper "flushable" washlets are also made from a tissue paper, although of necessity stronger than bog paper, so they would break up in the treatment works.
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'Freshu' is what you need
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Your partners flannel?
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The Roman Army used a sponge on a stick. One shared between 8 men.
Just get some Archer fish to live in your bidet.
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Is no-one going to complain that the CLAG-GONE either has a very fancy hub to reverse the direction of the chain, or there is a design flaw? I suppose maybe you need to pedal it in the reverse direction to normal to achieve the results indicated 😀
Cheers, Rich
Not sure a clag gone will fit in the en suite.
When I say wet wipes I mean the one designed for the job made by Andrex or whoever not baby wipes or kitchen wipes. I'm led to believe that even though they say "flushable" they don't break down in the sewage system like loo roll.
Glag gone aside I was thinking maybe a Bum Gun or some kind of hose might be a better option?
Maybe not all like this but our kids 'flushable' wipes say only one per flush. Useful huh?
Do you live on or near a donkey sanctuary?
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As I said earlier, Freshu is what you want. It's a foam that you spray onto normal toilet paper thet turns it into a wet wipe. Disintigrates the same as a normal toilet paper.
See http://www.thameswater.co.uk/media/press-releases/16133.htm
Those Washlet things are flushable, it says so on the packet. Readily demonstrable if you stick one under the tap.
Flushing regular wet wipes is a big no-no. I blocked our bog by accidentally flushing just one of them.
My missus flushed a regular baby wipe the other day and blocked the loo, Can't see how those andrex wipes are much different TBH.
They [u]might[/u] biodegrade in the sewers, but I can see a couple getting entangled with a more Kursk like creation and causing a local jam in the U-bend. As the only one apparently qualified to wield a plunger in this house they are banned from my bog.
Never ever flush wet wipes down the bog, according to the Marine Conservation Society there's been a 50% increase of them littering up our beaches and coast line. Not good at all.
Beware the flushable ones… they may still invoke the use of dynarod. Speaking from experience. Ahem.
Er, yes, rabhill, which is what prompted the OP to start this thread 😉
Never ever flush wet wipes down the bog, according to the Marine Conservation Society there's been a 50% increase of them littering up our beaches and coast line. Not good at all.
That announcement this week is probably what prompted the thread. With such a sharp increase it suggests that the newly marketed 'Flushable washlets' might be joining the naughtily discarded non-flush ones. The blurb I've seen suggests they tested for their biodegradable-ness but it makes you wonder if they are contributing to the litter before they degrade.
A press release saying '50% increase' in 'short time' usually means 'we've changed the way the count things' though
Cougar - one wipe and erm... Something else!? 😆
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^ WiperWaterPisStool^
Fear not, they probably wont make it to the sea, they are in your foul pipes backing it up. You'll have a job cleaning yourself up after youve had to retrive them all in 6 months time!
Definitely bin if your on SEPTIC TANK TOO>
I've been using the specific toilet wipes for quite a while now. They were a revalation for me being cursed with a hairy arse and probably not the best diet! I could be there hours clearing up the mess my arse explosions made before I started using them....
They do say they are biodegradable and flushable and a check on the andrex website confirms this as well but they recommend only flushing one or two at a time.
I'm happy to continue using them until told not to or I'll have to go back to mass deforestation use of normal paper!
While were on this shitty subject I occasionaly get the pleasure of a teflon poo where it doesnt leave a trace 🙂 How does this magic occur? Is there something I should eat more often that contains this natural teflon?
The design of toilets does not put humans in the best position for a clean poo. You need to do it more as nature intended as due to the invention if toilet paper there has been no evolutionary development by death due to bottom hygiene problems.
As for bagging and binning - please no, we put enough crap in plastic bags in landfill.
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In a word, Waitrose.
As for bagging and binning - please no, we put enough crap in plastic bags in landfill.
I once visited a sewerage sludge pumping station on doors open day (believe it or not I was on a date)
Part of their system was centrifuging out anything undissolved - that went onto a conveyor and into a skip and, presumably, into landfill. At least bagging it would get it to landfill as intended rather than clogging up infrastructure on the way there or via the beach.
Why don't you just trim yer anal beard?
Cheap set of clippers - £10.
Non-itchy starfish - priceless.
You will need a small mirror and good lighting.
[Wash it first!]
OK, maccruiskeen, we want to know more about the date aspect to that tale.
"Are you free Saturday - I've got a spare ticket to the sewage plant open day and I thought of you....?"
OK, maccruiskeen, we want to know more about the date aspect to that tale.
She was an Industrial Archeologist
More people should get a look at how sewage is transported/treated. Screens and the cleaning thereof (often by hand) is an eye opener.
Yes, shit used to be my bread and butter.
What was it? Life's like a shit sandwich, the more bread you got the less...
Would the increase have anything to do with flooding and overflows discharging direct to sea and rivers in that event?
All wet wipes clog up the sewers. Do not flush them, bag and bin.
Pee, poo and paper goes in the bog, nothing else.
[i]More people should get a look at how sewage is transported/treated. Screens and the cleaning thereof (often by hand) is an eye opener.[/i]
I tried to get people to watch the Watermen when it was on.
[url] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01z4n5w [/url]
Sewage processing is dead interesting. Way more interesting than clean water which is just a bit dull to be honest.
Would the increase have anything to do with flooding and overflows discharging direct to sea and rivers in that event?
Very possibly. In the event of a storm it is possible that solids will find their way over the storm overflow weirs into the storm (i.e. not foul) sewers. Storm overflows are designed to contain solids so they travel down the foul sewer but I would imagine wet wipes are rather buoyant and could go over the weir.
Sewage processing is dead interesting. Way more interesting than clean water which is just a bit dull to be honest.
It is good but I did clean water too, which I also enjoyed. We did wash the surveying kit in bleach before going to a clean site though.
I enjoy the logistics of clean water transportation but making water potable is fairly simple, filter it, kill the microbes, get it to the public.
Sewage is infinitely more complex, especially nowadays when the adage 'where there's muck, there's brass' has never been truer. So now not only is there some incredibly clever processes involved in making people's poo safe, there's also some highly intelligent stuff going on in extracting the value out of all that crap that no-one else wants.
Every dump you curl out is like a little stick of gold.
My missus [s]flushed a regular baby wipe[/s] did a massive shit the other day and blocked the loo
FTFY, based on what she told you and the probable truth 😉
Another advocate of shaving.
Why wouldn't you?
Just don't use a razor!
Actually forget whether or not you should flush your pre-moistened lemon scented toe rags down the kludgy - i'm going to stop flushing full stop.
Turns out I've literally been sitting on a [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32026636 ]gold mine all this time[/url]
EDIT - just checking its not April
EDIT - no its not
So I was ruminating on this subject this morning.....
For those that trim under there, what clippers do you use? Presumably cheap and cleanable?